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What's the Proper Libertarian Voice on Iran?

Brian Doherty | 7.20.2006 5:45 PM


The Cato Institute is giving AEI's uberinterventionist Reuel Marc Gerecht the first word in a foreign policy debate about what to do about Iran at their Cato Unbound Web zine. Former Catoite Doug Bandow thinks this is fishy, noting

It's hard to imagine Cato leading off a debate on health care with an essay proposing nationalized health care, or a debate on Social Security with an AARP article demanding higher benefits, or a debate on taxes with a piece proposing confiscatory rates on the rich.

Cato's Ted Galen Carpenter reacts to Gerecht.

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).